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ALL meanings of bucketed

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  • noun bucketed a deep, cylindrical vessel, usually of metal, plastic, or wood, with a flat bottom and a semicircular bail, for collecting, carrying, or holding water, sand, fruit, etc.; pail. 1
  • noun bucketed anything resembling or suggesting this. 1
  • noun bucketed Machinery. any of the scoops attached to or forming the endless chain in certain types of conveyors or elevators. the scoop or clamshell of a steam shovel, power shovel, or dredge. a vane or blade of a waterwheel, paddle wheel, water turbine, or the like. 1
  • noun bucketed (in a dam) a concave surface at the foot of a spillway for deflecting the downward flow of water. 1
  • noun bucketed a bucketful: a bucket of sand. 1
  • noun bucketed Basketball. Informal. field goal. the part of the keyhole extending from the foul line to the end line. 1
  • noun bucketed bucket seat. 1
  • noun bucketed Bowling. a leave of the two, four, five, and eight pins, or the three, five, six, and nine pins. 1
  • verb with object bucketed to lift, carry, or handle in a bucket (often followed by up or out). 1
  • verb with object bucketed Chiefly British. to ride (a horse) fast and without concern for tiring it. 1
  • verb with object bucketed to handle (orders, transactions, etc.) in or as if in a bucket shop. 1
  • verb without object bucketed Informal. to move or drive fast; hurry. 1
  • idioms bucketed drop in the bucket, a small, usually inadequate amount in relation to what is needed or requested: The grant for research was just a drop in the bucket. 1
  • idioms bucketed drop the bucket on, Australian Slang. to implicate, incriminate, or expose. 1
  • idioms bucketed kick the bucket, Slang. to die: His children were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket. 1
  • verb bucketed simple past tense and past participle of bucket. 0
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